> Memory deallocation, from my experience, happens at the > end of a request. It makes sense that way, and that would > be how I would implement the CFML interpreter engine anyway > since all the engine needs to do is to keep track of the > heap memory assigned to the thread performing the CFM > request, and just return the heaps back to the heap pool > when the request ends. I think Allaire/MACR used to call > them SmartHeaps. Pretty funny name. ;)
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